As a description of the music lying therein, Parallel Dreams could not have been better named, as the album mellifluously blends into one long lullaby. Album openers "Samain Night" and "Moon Cradle" set the reflective mood before "Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance", a tribute to the ancient Gaelic festivals, ups the tempo with an ancestral jig.

Lorenna McKennitt had not quite hit her stride when this album was released - the audio quality is good but not completely polished, and the overall production is not as refined as her later works. Still, this provides some insight to her journey as an artist - from the truly rough "Elemental" to the stepping stone of "Parallel Dreams" and then later to her greater and better works.4/5(11).

More album almost purely acoustic, traditional and slow. This time the concept is the parallel dreams, European travel and plains peacetime. " Samain Night " opens the disc with harp, flute and soft vocals and sweet, as if to invite you to lie down and sleep, to dream in peace. Followed with " Moon Cradle ", an acoustic band and acute/5(33).

Track 4: From the Quinlan Road CD/DVD “Loreena McKennitt: Nights from the Alhambra”. Above versions of "Elemental", "Parallel Dreams" and "The Visit" are Enhanced with PC & Mac playable sections containing multilingual links to Quinlan Road official website and were previously released in /5(7).